NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC69F0088
Registry · N3448Y
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 180H
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A3CFB1
Registrant of record
MTDC LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982)
NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.
Aircraft
CESSNA 180H · N3448Y
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
BIG LAKE
Kind of flying
DB
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Total time
54 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
3,490
Age
44
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
LOST.LT AILERON WENT TO TRAIL,RT TO DROOP POSIT.
Investigator remarks
FLOAT EQPT.BOLT IN AILERON/FLAP INTERCONNECT SYS
Cause factors
- 70/A/D2 A AIRFRAME AILERON SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/90 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/88 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 4316.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_4316.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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